Corrette Ploem, professor by special appointment
As of 1 May, Corrette Ploem has been appointed professor by special appointment in the new chair 'Recht, zorgtechnologie en geneeskunde' (Law, Healthcare Technology and Medicine). With the approval of the Executive Board of the UvA, the Dutch Medical Association KNMG has established this chair at the Amsterdam Law School. The position has been placed within the public law department, health law section. New technological developments, such as robotisation and artificial intelligence, have a major impact on the work of a doctor. To ensure that doctors will be well equipped for this in the future, this special chair in Recht, zorgtechnologie en geneeskunde ( Law, Healthcare Technology and Medicine) has been created. As of 1 May, Corrette Ploem will fulfil this position. Corrette has worked as a health lawyer at the Amsterdam UMC since 1994. She studied and obtained her PhD at the UvA. In her current position as associate professor at the Department of Ethics, Law and Medical Humanities of the AUMC she focuses in particular on the legal aspects of the introduction of new technologies in healthcare, in research and in screening. Informing patients with a robot. 'I'm really looking forward to it', says Ploem. 'The chair offers an excellent opportunity to do research at the interface of law and medicine, into the legal aspects of the use of healthcare technology. Many questions arise about this in medical practice. For example, can a doctor leave the medical decision-making entirely to a "decision support system" or can he leave the provision of information to a robot, or does he retain his own role and responsibility?
